Tag Archives: My Antonia

Questions about the Reading Experience

By Robin Bates | Published: August 19, 2025

In which I continue to answer questions, directed to Barbara Kingsolver, about my reading experiences. Then I come up with some new questions.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Tortoise Shout", Barbara Kingsolver, Catcher in the Rye, D. H. Lawrence, Flaubert’s Parrot, Franny and Zooey, George Eliot, Haruki Murakami, J. D. Salinger, Julian Barnes, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Leo Tolstoy, Man Who Died, Middlemarch, War and Peace, Willa Cather, Women in Love | Comments closed

Lit Titles as Cocktails (“The Wasteland”)

By Robin Bates | Published: August 29, 2012

NPR’s Studio 360 sponsored a “literary cocktail” contest. We share here some of the highlights.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Age of Innocence, Bonfire of the Vanities, Cat's Cradle, Dougas Adams, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Grapes of Wrath, Great Gatsby, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, Talented Mr. Ripley, Tom Wolfe, Willa Cather | Comments closed

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